Butter-cutter.



PATENTED MAY 16, 1905.

E. SUTHERLAND.

BUTTER CUTTER.

- APPLICATION FILED IBB. 17.1905.

thereof.

No. vsassa NTTED STATES Patented. May 16, 1905.

F FICE.

PATENT BUTTER-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 789,889, dated May 16, 1905.

Application filed February 17, 1905- Serial No. 246,162.

To all whom, it rmty concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL SUTHERLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Butter-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide simple, handy, and reliable means to cut butter into pounds, half-pounds and quarterpounds, or to divide a quantity of butter into different divisions thereof which will always be handy and accessible to a grocer or other party engaged in handling butter. I accomplish these objects by means of the device described herein and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a butter cutter embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section thereof, partly in elevation, with a cake of butter therein, the butter-bar being thrown into its cutting position, the cake being shown partly out.

In the drawings, A is the body portion or frame, upon which the cutter-bar B is pivoted, so as to swing transversely across the center of the frame, and is thereby adapted to be swung backwardly and out of place for the insertion on the frame and between the followers C of a cake D of butter. When the 'cake of butter to be cut is placed upon the is grasped and moved in a direction to draw the followers secured thereon together. These followers when mounted as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 will always be equidistant from the cutter-bar B and hold the substance to be operated on centrally under the cutting wire G, tightly mounted in the cutter-bar by means of the thumb-nut H. The operatinglever is pivoted centrally, as at I, on the bottom of the frame and has a plurality of openings F, F, and F therethrough to vary the stroke of one of the followers in order that the substance operated on may be cut in the center or at any other divisional line If the connecting-rod J is placed in F ,it will divide the substance into halves,

or it may be divided into different quantities as desired by moving the connecting-rod J into different openings F or F. These connecting-rods are pivotally attached at their other ends to the guides K, running in bearings L. This end of the guide-rod is upturned and passes through the longitudinal slot A in the frame and carries in its upper end one of the followers C.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A butter-cutter comprising a frame or body portion; a lever pivotally attached thereto having followers mounted on either end of the frame and adapted to move longitudinally along the frame on the movement of' the operating-lever and a butter-cutter mounted on the side of the frame and adapted to swing across the frame and divide the butter in place on the frame.

2. A butter cutter comprising a main body portion A having a pivoted operating lever F secured thereon; a cutter-bar B transversely mounted on the frame and carrying a cutting-wire G secured thereon; followers 0 workably secured to the operating-lever and having a longitudinal movement along the face of the frame upon the movement of the operatinglever.

3. The herein-described butter-cutter comprising a frame A; a cutter-bar B pivotally secured thereon and having a cutting-wire G adjustably mounted on the cutterbar; an operating-lever F .centrally pivoted on the bottom,of the frame and carrying the connecting-rods J guide-rods K mounted on the body portion and having a longitudinal movement thereon; the connecting-rods J pivoted at one end in the guide-rod and the other end in the operating-lever; followers 0 rigidly secured to the guide-rods and having a longitudinal movement along the face of the frame.

4. In a butter-cutter of the character herein described an operating-lever pivotally mounted in the center of the frame and having a plurality of openings therein for the reception of connecting-rods the openings spaced apart one. from the other substanlever; an operating-lever pivotally mounted tially as shown and described. in the center of the frame.

5. Means to cut butter into different di- InWitness that I claim the foregoing I have Visions comprising a frame for the placehereunto subscribed my name this 7th day of 5 ment thereon of the butter to be cut; a piv- February, 1905.

oted cutter mounted on the side of the frame and centrally of its length and adapted to be EMIL SUTHERLAND' swung across the face of the frame; followers Witnesses: mounted on either end of the body portion HENRY T. HAZARD,

10 and Workably connected With an operating EDMUND A. STRAUSEQ 

